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Twelve Thousand. Everyone knows that the web of history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign...
...brought chimpanzees from the Congo and from Sierra Leone. In Borneo her collectors caught the rare black ape-Mme. Abreu's is the only live one in any collection. From Gibraltar came a Barbary ape, the only native European monkey. Africa and South America contributed lion monkeys. Thumbless spider monkeys swing merrily from the trees in this private zoo. In all, there are now 130 monkeys representing 25 species...
Michard is a professional bicycle sprinter, Olympic winner in 1924. René Lacoste, who defeated "Big Bill" Tilden and "Little Bill" Johnston to take the Davis Cup away from English speaking players for the first time in history, won second place. Seraphin Martin, middle-distance runner, Spider Pladner, bantamweight fisticuffer, ran third, fourth. Henri Cochet, famed Davis Cup tennis player, stood miserably among the last; Jean Borotra, brilliant, bounding member of the Cup team, scored no votes...
...scared of Harvard boys trying to kid me in the dark during my seances," were the words of Chatrand the Great, the master magician who is starring in "The Spider," the mystery plays at the Majestic Theatre, this week. Chatrand, otherwise known as John Halliday, was carefully combing his hair and putting on his make-up in his dressing room before the performance...
...SPIDER-What happens when a magician has murder...